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HOUSE  OF  REPRKSEXTATIVES,  December  J3,  lo04.— Read 
first  and  second  times,  and  made  special  order  after  last  special 
order  and  da}  to  day,  and  ordered  to  l)c  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Lv1)n,  from  Committee  on  Ways  and  Means.  \ 

A    BILL 

To   be  ectitled   "An  act  to  impose  a  duty  on  tobacco  and  an  addi- 
tional dnty  on  cotton  exported  from  the  Confederate  States." 

1  Section  1.     T'te  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  nf  America 

2  do  enact,  Tiiat  from  and  after  flie  passage  of  this  act,  an  addi- 

3  tional  duty  of  five  cent?  per  pound  shall  be  levied  and  collected 

4  and  paid  on  all  cotton  in  the  raw  :r:tatc  exported  from   the  Con- 

5  federate  States:  and  a  (Auy  of  five  cents  j)or  pound  on  all  to- 

6  hacco   exported  as  aforesaid  :    and  the  said    duties   are  hereby 

7  made  payable  in  specie  or  in  the  coupons  of  the  bonds  of  the 

8  five  hur,<lrtd  million  loan  aiJthori^^od  by  the  actof  17th  Februarv. 

9  is»;4. 


